Traffic Calming Measures are Here!

Metro Nashville’s newest way to slow your 🫏 down

Nashville’s accelerated growth in recent years has brought in plenty of new business, more jobs, more neighbors, and of course more traffic!  To keep our neighborhood streets a safe place to be, the Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure (NDOT) has introduced a sleek new way to keep cars moving at an appropriate speed in our communities: speed tables.

Speed tables are being deployed in several neighborhoods around town, and they serve as a happy medium between simple attention-getting devices like rumble strips and more aggressive devices like abrupt speed bumps.  Speed tables have a gentle way of slowing down vehicles so they can keep within range of the speed limit, and spacing the tables appropriately seems to keep traffic from zooming past our homes and schools at an unsafe speed.

Speed tables also help keep traffic on the main roads of our city and off of our smaller streets.  Reducing traffic in our residential zones has a number of benefits for where we reside, increasing our walkability, lowering our noise & air pollution, and creating a safer environment around our schools and parks.

Any Nashville resident can request speed tables on their specific street by applying directly with NDOT.  All residents on that street will receive a postcard with information on their specific traffic calming plan and will be able to vote on speed table installation. A 70% resident approval is required to move forward.  To learn more about how to deploy speed tables in your neighborhood, visit the website at the QR code above.  And save the date: the next application window runs September 3 - 16, 2024.